A 24-year-old man was rushed to the Rangueil Accident and Emergency unit in Toulouse, France, with a World War I artillery shell lodged in his rectum, triggering the hospital’s evacuation. According to sources, the patient was “in a state of extreme discomfort, having inserted a large object up his rectum.”

The intensity of the man’s pain prompted surgeons to perform an emergency surgery, which is when they discovered the explosive source of his agony — a live, eight-inch bomb shell from 1918 which had found its way up inside him.